Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS

[Jason Earl]

On Wed, Nov 24 2010, Elena wrote:

> On Nov 23, 4:18 pm, Jason Earl <je...@notengoamigos.org> wrote:
>> Here is a basic setup that will connect gnus to an IMAP server on port
>> 993 via ssl.  In short, if all you need is the sort of basic setup that
>> you get from other mail clients this will suit you just fine.
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>       '((nnimap "mail"
>>                 (nnimap-address "your.mail.server")
>>                 (nnimap-server-port 993)
>>                 (nnimap-stream ssl)
>>                 (nnimap-authenticator login))))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Thank you very much, Jason.  However, my server is a POP one,
> otherwise I guess Gnus would not have been dumb enough to start
> downloading my mails and deleting them assuming I knew some bizantine
> settings to avoid that beforehand.  Thunderbird may be big and slow,
> but at least it does not make such assumptions.
>
> For a text-based mail-client, I'm looking into Alpine now.

It has been a long time since I have used a pop3 client, but when I used
to support such beasts downloading the messages (and deleting them from
the server) is precisely what they were *supposed* to do.  I would not
be surprised if most modern email clients still downloaded the messages
and deleted them from the server when using pop3.

Heck, that's why IMAP was invented.

There are quite a few text-based email clients--heck, there are probably
a half dozen *good* email clients based on Emacs--but I don't think that
it is useful (or fair, for that matter) to advocate discounting Gnus
because it did what is customary in the case of a pop3 server.

Jason